Laravel TDD, Eloquent, Livewire and Many Tools

This video is a Laravel code review that turned into an unexpectedly long Test Driven Development lesson and writing unit tests for the job interview task.

Today I answer a question received by email, improving the author's Laravel code in 3 incremental ways.

I demonstrate how to perform a search in multiple Eloquent models, in two ways: with local "like" search, and then with external tools like Laravel Scout and Algolia driver.

In this video of the series, we implement a simple CKEditor 5 into our forms, for now without image uploading.

In this video of the series, we cleanup Controllers code to avoid docblocks - in the existing Controllers, but also for any Controllers we generate in the future.

In this video of the series, we fix the first REAL bug reported by a client and also work on managing the pages that the client requested.

A new demo of the Livewire component, which allows to select multiple checkboxes on the form, and tick all of them by ticking their "parent" checkbox.

Pretty Routes for Laravel is a package to display Laravel routes in the console, but make it pretty.

Most people use form requests solely for validation, but they can also help to keep your controllers clean. Here's how we use them in Mailcoach Stay up to date with all things Laravel, PHP, and JavaScript.

Laravel's awesome closure based routing was probably one of the first features I fell in love with. I take it for granted now, but back in the days, such a simple way of adding a route felt like a glass of water in hell compared to the other frameworks.

It provides a simple, yet powerful approach for adding multi-step form wizards to you Laravel application. It takes care of all the boring details so you can spend your time writing features, not boilerplate.

Hey there! I am a longtime Laravel applications developer, and I recently released a free tool for domains management I use for my company. It's called https://domain-check.it/. Once you sign up, you can add your domains and enable expiration alerts (for both the domain and the certificate).

These methods are useful for storing tax ID information in Stripe alongside other user account information found in Stripe. Here's a text version of the code examples in pull request #1137 that you can start using in Cashier Stripe to manage tax IDs:

It’s never been easier to deploy a Laravel app. In this guide we will use AWS to host a fresh install of Laravel. First you’ll need to sign up for an AWS account at aws.amazon.com.

Wow, the PHP train doesn’t stop, does it? There was one RFC (Request for Comments) for a new capability of the PHP language itself that closed voting just recently, and it’s called never. PHP 8.

I’ve started building a new portal for work, after many iterations we have settled on Laravel 8 and Jetstream. The biggest annoyance so far has been a personal team getting created for every single user.

In this tutorial, i will try to learn you laravel barcode generator example. So i will use how to generate barcode in laravel. You will learn how to save generate bar code in laravel. So you can learn laravel barcode tutorial.

This folder structure works ok for small projects, but as soon as you write more and more controllers, models, etc. it gets very hard to find the actual file you are looking for. Much cleaner!

Every once in a while, you'll have a protected route that only registered users have access to. For example, you might have a webshop where users can add items to cart only when they are registered or have a subscription service with the exact requirements.

I had the need for a constrained textarea on a recent project. It's basically just a normal text area that counts down how many characters you have left to type in before it cuts you off.

In this blog post I'll go over the solution we came up with that makes this process completely free (depending on your configuration) and integrated in your own application.

Any tips on the best way to go about adding tests to an existing project that does not currently have any.

Variables — $bank_accounts, $bank_account, similar convention will be used for html name attribute and of course database columns. While working on Django project I never think twice, but while using Laravel, it's not the same.

So, you've just built your beautiful Laravel application, it has authentication, localization, tests and all the fancy features that could possibly impress the recruiter and land you a job. However, it's only working on your machine. How do we solve this?

Readme.so is the easiest way to create a readme markdown file for your next project, created by Katherine Peterson. My first ever product hunt launch!